Mastering Emacs

I’m sure you’ve found yourself in this situation: you want to edit something, but in multiple places, and at the same time. You’re busy; you don’t want to repeat yourself, and this is the twenty-first century and we do have the technology to do this...

It’s taken a little bit longer than I would have liked to get the next edition out the door. I also felt the site needed a lick of paint which, if you’re a regular and astute reader, you may have noticed already.
But as I explain in the book update below, the two headline features are tree-sitter support and Eglot. To say nothing of the million other new Emacs 29.1 features that were added....

Recently, I talked about the challenges around improving Combobulate, my package that adds structured editing and movement to Emacs, so navigation is intuitive and works the way a human expects. Briefly, instead of relying on elaborate guesswork that...

Today, I want to discuss the difficulties of navigating code in a tree-sitter environment. For all the meticulous detail it adds, it also makes intuitive navigation hard. There are too many nodes going in all manner of directions and that’s, well… discombobulating...